Tenses Exercise For Verbal Ability Section

Directions For Question 1 to 20 – Given below are the statements with blanks. You are required to fill in the
blanks with appropriate words given in the option so that the sentence appears to be in the correct form of
Tense.
Q.1. How many cups of tea_____ yesterday?
1. Did you drink
2. Do you drink
3. You have drank
4. You were drinking
Ans. 1

Q.2. She shall _____ your ice-cream parlour soon because she ____ ice-cream.
1. Be visiting, like
2. Visit, likes
3. Have been visiting, is liking
4. Visiting, like
Ans. 2

Q.3. Shakespeare ____ dramas that are appealing to the people of all ages.
1. Wrote
2. Had written
3. Had been writing
4. Has written
Ans. 4

Q.4. The barber ___ his finger while he ____ off my hair.
1. Had cut, was chopping
2. Cut, chop
3. Cut, was chopping
4. Cuts, had been chopping
Ans. 1

Q.5. Prasoon ___ for Bangalore early and he must ___ by this time.
1. Leave, have been reaching
2. Left, have reached
3. Had left, be reaching
4. Left, have been reached
Ans. 2

Q.6. No, Rama is not at home. He ___ just ____ for shopping
1. had, gone
2. has, gone
3. was , going
4. will have, be going
Ans. 2

Q.7. It is clearly ____ ‘passengers ____ to smoke in the train’, still, they ___ ignorant.
1. Written, are not allowed, are being
2. Written, was not allowed, be
3. Wrote, do not allow, are been
4. Written, are not allowing, have been
Ans. 1

Q.8. They ____ a football match in the evening. What ___ you do?
1. Were playing, do
2. Played, did
3. Have played, —
4. Are playing, will
Ans. 2

Q.9. Sheren ____ what you meant. Please explain it to her again.
1. Don’t understand
2. Didn’t understand
3. Doesn’t understand
4. Hadn’t understand
Ans. 2

Q.10. By the end of this September, she ____in this organisation for thirteen years.
1. Will work
2. Had been working
3. Will have been working
4. Will be working
Ans. 3

Q.11. Nancy and Princy ____ to our house to play the treasure hunt with us.
1. Will have been coming
2. Had been to come
3. Are coming
4. Come
Ans. 3

Q.12. The flight ____ before we reach the airport.

1. Will have taken off
2. Has taken off
3. Is taking off
4. Was taking off
Ans. 1

Q.13. I have just ____ a typewriter and I ____ typing recently.

1. Have been hiring, have been learning
2. Hired, have learned
3. Had hired, am learning
4. Have been hired, had been learning
Ans. 2

Q.14. Mother ___ me to watch time and return soon, I replied, Please don’t worry, if ____ late tonight.
1. Is asking, I will be
2. Asked, I am
3. Had been asking, be
4. Had asked, I will be
Ans. 2

Q.15. If she ___ late just one more time the manager ____ suspend her.
1. Is arriving, is going to
2. Will be arriving, would
3. Arrives, will
4. Is going to arrive, would have
Ans. 3

Q.16. They ___ out for an evening walk after they ____ dinner.
1. Went, had taken
2. go, had taken
3. Have gone, took
4. Are going, took
Ans. 1

Q.17. The warden ___ into the room to see what the students ____.
1. Go, had been doing
2. Went, was doing
3. Gone, had been doing
4. Went, were doing
Ans. 4

Q.18. When our train ____ at the station, we found the bridegroom’s family ____ for us.
1. Was reaching, waited
2. Reached, had been waiting
3. Have been reaching, waited
4. Reached, waiting
Ans. 2

Q.19. Rohan, I ___ seen you for a long time, How ___?
1. Had not, are you
2. Have not, have you been
3. Did not, had you been
4. Have not, are you been
Ans. 1
Q.20. She ____ movies. ____ any recent Hollywood movies?
1. Loves watching, have you watched
2. Love to watching, did you watched
3. Is loving, have you been watching
4. Loves watching, had you seen
Ans. 1